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A. MARQUIS & H. HAHN.

VIAL HOLDER.

Patented May 24, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED MARQUIS, OF NEV YORK, AND HENRY HAHN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

VIAIL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,659, dated May 24, 1887.

Application filed February 18,1887. Serial No. 22?.145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALFRED MARQUIS and HENRY HAHN, citizens of the United States, and residents of New York, county of New York,and Brooklyn, county ofKings and State of New York, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vial- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a casing or casket for holding vials in a convenient position for carrying in the pocket or otherwise, being more particularly intended for use of physicians who carry their medicines with them.

The invention consists in a novel construction of the casing and devices for holding the vials, as hereinafter more particularly described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a detail view of one of the devices for holding the vials. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the casing when opened and ready for use, showing some of the holders with. vials in place and others without them. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view taken in the line X X, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a front view, and Fig. 5 is a side view, of a modification hereinafter referred to.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The casing or casket A may be made of leather or any other suitable material, and of any shape, as in the present example it is made in the shape of whatis commonlyknown as a Greek cross, as shownin Fig. 2-that is to say, with a central portion, at, having four arms, a radiating therefrom at right angles to each other. The central portion, a, carries the vials, and the arms a are folded over said central portion like a pocket-book when the casing'is carried in the pocket.

The central portion, a, is backed by a piece of sheet metal, B, the lower edge of which is turned outward at a right angle with the main portion, so as to form a flange or shelf, 1), of a width nearly equal to the diameter of the vials to be carried.

The device for holding the vials consists of an elastic clamp, (1, made of a piece ofwire embracing the wire at suitable points.

bent midway of its length, so as to form somewhat more than a half-circle, and having the ends bent downward at right angles thereto, as shown clearly in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

In the metal plate B, and in the leather or other material which covers it, near the flange or shelf 1), are slits (Z, and between every two of these slits the material is raised so as to form aloop, '6. Above this loop the material is cut so as to form atongue, f. The clamp G is secured to the body or central portion, a, by inserting the ends of the wire into the loops 6 and placing the curved portion under the tongue f, which is then pressed down, so as to hold the clamp firmly in place.

lhe vial is held in place in the casket by having its bottom rest on the flange or shelf 1), and having its upper portion, between the bottom and the neck, clasped by the curved portion of the clamp, which forms more than a half-circle, and which, being elastic, yields to allow the vial to pass beyond the extremities of the curve, so that said extremities extend outward beyond the center of the diameter of the vial, and thus clasp it securely in place.

In order to economize space, and also to further secure the vials in position, the clamps G are made alternately longer and shorter that is to say, the first clamp engages the vial near its neck, the seconcLone engages it near its mid-length, the third near its neck, and so on through the series, as shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5, G represents a vial-holder made of a piece of wire bent so as to form at its upper portion a clamp, 9, similar to the clamp 0, (shown in Figs. 1, 2. and 3,) for clasping the neck of the vial, and at its lower end a projecting loop, 9 for the vial to rest upon. The ends of the wire are passed beyond each other, as shown in Fig. I

4:, so as to form substantially a single piece. The vial-holder thus formed is secured tothe body of the casing or casket by the staples it Which the body or central portion is backed by metal,

as hereinbefore described, the points of the staples may be passed through holes therein and clinched on the rear side, and if said body is backed with wood said staples may be simply driven therein.

If desirable, a row of vials may be arranged on one or more of the arms a"; or the form of the case may be changed in any way without departing from our invention.

What We claim is- 1. A vial-holder consisting of a casing or casket having its body or central portion backed by a plate of sheet metal having loops 6 and tongues f formed therein, in combination with a clamp, 0, made in the form and arranged in the manner substantially as herein described.

2. The vial-holding device G, made of a con- 15 ALFRED MAR UIS. HENRY HAHN.

Witnesses:

FRANCIS 0. Bowen, J AS. S. EWBANIK. 

